'Retelling'
empowers patients to see and live their lives differently.
-- John McLeod, Narrative and
Psychotherapy. London: Sage, 1998.[Head,
School of Social and Health Sciences, University of Abertay Dundee]

Literary,
conversational narrations:attribution
of motives/causes[?] +
attribution of a sense*

*by
convention (Once upon a time...) and simulation based on
establishing a climate and
a climax (or
anti-climax).
Like-pitched events seem to lead to a cathartic, meaningful
denouement... or to one that denies any meaning (which is still a
sense!).

Critical
Intercultural Communicative Competence (CICC)is the ability to do this in
real-life intercultural interaction: confer shared sense on events.

L2
speakers with CICC confer existential senses on the events
they recount, that are 'in line' with their L1 interlocutor's
worldview. They react to her/his recounting of events, within
the felt existential framework that shaped them.

At
the same time they are aware of the relativity of their and their
interlocutors' worldviews (and thus accounts of events), and have
unmasked the hidden agendas and (false) ideologies.One
meaning of CICC is, therefore, knowing
how to tell a story well within a culture, knowing it's just a
story (or a myth).

Thus,
in a neo-Saussurian perspective...the intercultural study of
English (or any language)becomes the study of the
sedimentation of instances of
wills to mean in a particular waythat produce classes of ways of being.